CBT Plus, with Anxiety.
'CBT Plus, with Anxiety' is a 3-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of accredited courses for professionals working in mental health and related areas. See also Effective interventions for anxiety in children and young people.
It is the only CBT for Anxiety, Stress & Worry training that is APT-accredited and also gives you access to APT’s relevant downloadable resources for use post-course. The course is available for teams/organizations and can be attended face-to-face or online. It can also be completed as part of the Extended Training in CBT course, or The APT Diploma in Working with common mental health diagnoses.
Executive Summary:
'Worry' is the epitome on non-productive distress, because although it is by definition distressing, it also impairs the person's ability to resolve any problems that realistically underlie the worry. Equally, some people find that they have simply acquired the 'habit' of worrying, and as soon as one problem is resolved will find 'another peg to hang their worry on'. And finally there is the concept of 'stress'. Which on this course we define as the pressure put on the person who may or may not suffer sdistressing worry as a result: some individuals seem to acquire a much greater ability to cope with 'stress' than others do.
What this course will do for you:
- You will know about stress and worry: the symptoms, causes and how it affects people.
- You will be familiar with the major CBT techniques for dealing with stress and alleviating worry, and how to apply them with your own patients.
The course covers:
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder: the DSM term closest to 'chronic, long-term worry'. In GAD the patient normally exhibits a mix of overestimation of catastrophe and underestimation of coping ability.
- Why mental acts such as (a) suppression and (b) rumination are counterproductive.
- The measurement and recording of anxiety levels.
- Behavioral interventions, (which tend to be well-liked by clients) such as: The worry period; assertive habit-breaking; time structuring; goal setting.
- The role of music and the rationale for it.
- Biological interventions, which can be extremely powerful and fast-acting, and form a legitimate part of modern CBT: relevant illnesses; regular routine; exercise; diet; mood-altering substances; sleep; relaxation.
- Interventions involving manipulation of the surroundings, examining what stresses the person is under and, maybe, helping to reduce it.
- Recognising, using and developing social support networks.
- Interventions involving changing the person's thinking style - i.e. cognitive interventions - include some of the 'heavy hitters' in stress and worry: Logical, Evidence-Based Reasoning; Problem Solving; Distraction; Stress-Inoculation Training and more.
- Assessment, using the five factor approach.
- Measurement of progress, using subjective and objective methods.
- Course Methods include lecture, discussion, video material, case analysis and practice exercises.
What you receive as a result of attending the training:
You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2.
Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.
Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.
Booking this training is easy...Booking Options... for individuals or small groups For teams and organizations:Option 1: Online Live and Exclusive course: Live and interactive online course, delivered via Zoom or Teams* exclusively for your team or organization. Price: $7,760* for a group of up to 15 people (price includes a workbook for every delegate, posted to one address, or a PDF version can be provided). Extra delegates $510 per person. *We standardly deliver courses via Zoom (which is recommended). If you would prefer to use Microsoft Teams, there is an additional charge of $160 CAD per day.
We bring the course and tutor to you, for an all-inclusive fee. Price: $12,400 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses) for a group of up to 15 people. Extra delegates: $810 per person. Option 3: 'Train the Trainer': If you or a colleague are a senior professional (e.g. consultant psychologist) and have a talent for communication and teaching, then you are welcome to apply to become an APT-accredited tutor. You could then tutor the course in your own organization, under license. This is not only a highly appropriate use of senior professionals, but it also saves your organization the tutor-component of the fee each time you run it or your chosen modules (50% of the face-to-face fee, regardless of whether the course is held online or face-to-face). To see the full benefits of this and to see whether you are eligible, click the button:
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Feedback Ratings.
We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course, which are updated periodically.
Face-to-Face
Presentation: 96%
Relevance: 95%
Online Live*
Presentation: 96%
Relevance: 91%
*This online live ratings are taken from the latest running of the course in this format.
Reviews.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the 'CBT Plus, with Anxiety' course has received.
"The whole course was excellent. I got so much from it and will continue to use it in my work. I'm sorry it has come to an end and would have liked to have gone further. The tutor was 'top class'. Thank you."
“A very informative and helpful course. Very well presented and many informational anecdotes ... I am certain the course will improve my own clinical practice and benefit the patients that I see in my daily work. The APT ethos of delivery and quality of information and handouts is exemplary and the staff in Leicester are a credit to the organization. Thank you for a very enjoyable course.”
